What is light and how does light affect human health? This article by Matt DeBow examines early research on sunlight and biochemical and hormones in plants and animal cells, brain research, pituitary gland hormones, full spectrum light, cancer, UV light, and much more.

Contrary to what you may have heard, appropriate sun exposure actually helps prevent the fatal type of skin cancer, melanoma. In fact, melanoma skin cancer, has been found to decrease with greater sun exposure, and can be increased by sunscreens. In fact, indoor workers get three to nine times LESS solar UV exposure than outdoor workers get, yet only indoor workers have increasing rates of melanoma — and the rates have been increasing since before 1940. Read this informative article to dispel the many myths of melanoma skin cancer.

We’ve heard countless times that sunlight causes skin cancer. We’ve also seen that there is little or even no scientific evidence to support the claim that sunlight causes skin cancer. It appears to be a rather clever marketing pitch for sunscreen. In this article by the University of California, San Francisco, we learn that sunlight actually helps to prevent skin cancer. The scientific evidence is in: “the sun may not be entirely the enemy some people think it is…vitamin D that sunlight helps the body create may help prevent a number of cancers, including skin cancer.”

Despite the Cancer Society’s claims that skin cancer is caused by sun exposure, increasing evidence shows that sun exposure reduces the risk of all forms of cancer and that skin cancer is more likely caused by a diet lacking omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids. Further more, no evidence exists that show that sunblock or sunscreen lotions prevent skin cancer.

Mike Adams, The Health Ranger, shares his own perspective on the connection between sunlight, vitamin D and skin cancer. Learn what research and science Mike Adams uses to exposure the myth that sunlight causes skin cancer in this 23 minute video.

The Suryanarayana temple at Arasavalli in Andhra Pradesh, India is an ancient one built by the Kalinga rulers in the 1st millennium CE. It is believed that those with skin ailments, blindness and barrenness are miraculously cured of their afflictions upon offering worship at this temple.

It is very clear that modern science has proven that sunlight exposure is necessary for human health. However how much sunlight exposure may not be. M. Nathaneil Mead discusses how much sunlight exposure people should get in Part 6 of his article the Beneftis of Sunlight: A Bright Spot for Human Health.

This Natural News TV video teaches about the body’s many needs for adequate sunlight exposure. Learn about the relationship between the Sun and four elements of life – earth, air, fire, water – and the how our body responds to natural sunlight by creating Vitamin D.

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This website is dedicated to the free discemination of information on the healing powers of the Sun and the spiritual practices of Sun Gazing and Surya (Sun) Yoga. All information is given in the spirit of the Sun, whom shares its Light and Love without restriction. May all of humanity benefit from the enlightening energy of the Sun and the wisdom of all beings who share in this service of Sun Yoga.

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